ON 2 SEPTEMBER IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on September 2, 2019
1274: Death of Prince Munetaka, the 6th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266, born on December 15, 1242
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Munetaka
1861: Sino-German treaty of commerce signed in Tianjin
1867: Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, marries Masako Ichijo. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she’s called by the posthumous name Empress Shoken
http://everything2.com/e2node/Empress%2520Shoken
1879: Birth of An Jung-Geun, Korean separatist who assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the former Japanese Resident-General of Korea. He was executed on March 26, 1910
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/An_Jung-geun
1914: After the August 23 declaration of war, Japanese troops land in German controlled province of Shandong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_I
1944: Japanese attack on Southern Chinese province of Guangxi
1945: The final official surrender of Japan is signed aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/2/newsid_3582000/3582545.stm
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/surrender01.htm
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-A2.html
1946: Birth of Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer, who died on August 7, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Yamanaka
1978: Birth of Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi_Hamasaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NxVZxmXyzc
2013: Death of Makoto Moroi, Japanese composer, born on December 17, 1930
http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/m/m/makoto-moroi.ht